Family
I was born in 1980. I am an Italian citizen married to an Austrian citizen, with three children.
Our family home is Salzburg (Austria), but we get to spend 4 weeks a year in our second home in Treviso (Italy) or at the seaside nearby.
Interests
- Computer Science, almost anything about it since I got my hands on a computer in 1993. My first program was in QBasic to to calculate the position of the rings of saturn for any specific date.
- The sea, in particular diving since 2009, sailing since 2020, both thanks to my wife, and motorboating since 2023, thanks to Federico (yes, I am basically a Thalassophile living in the second-largest landlocked EU country!).
- Mushroom hunting in the Austrian woods, since 2016, besides what is commonly eaten in Austria (Cantharellus Cibarius and Boletus Edulis), I mostly collect Armillaria Mellea, Armillaria Cepistipes, Craterellus Tubaeformis, Craterellus Lutescens, Imleria Badia, Neoboletus Erythropus, Suilellus Luridus.
- Genomics and proteomics since I followed a class in 2003 by Giorgio Valle at the University of Padua.
- Astronomy and cosmology since I was a kid.
- To take part in “a severe contest between intelligence, which presses forward, and an unworthy, timid ignorance obstructing our progress” by reading The Economist since 2002 (my paper subscription ran from 2007 to 2023, I had then to switch to a digital only subscription for post-COVID delivery issues).
- My family genealogy: I built a family tree going back to the 16th century with 780 direct ancestors of my daughters, I started to work intensively on the research since 2021.